Audio only
Unlikely Heroes
Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They MadeBy Derek LeebaertNarrated by L.J. GanserLength19h 9m
About this audiobook
Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis.
Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in April 1945, on the cusp of wartime victory. These lieutenants composed the tough, constrictive, long-term core of government. They built the great institutions being raised against the Depression, implemented the New Deal, and they were pivotal to winning World War II.
Yet, in their different ways, each was as wounded as the polio-stricken titan. Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace were also strange outsiders. Up to 1933, none would ever have been considered for high office. Still, each became a world figure, and it would have been exceedingly difficult for Roosevelt to transform the nation without them.
By examining the lives of these four, a very different picture emerges of how Americans saved their democracy and rescued civilization overseas. Many of the dangers that they all overcame are troublingly like those America faces today.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (309)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, LibraryThing, StoryGraph
GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length19 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byL.J. Ganser
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 28, 2023
LanguageEnglish
The Way of RoninTu Lam12h 9m4.9 (1.3K)$29 · $0.00
Matters of the HeartJacinta Nampijinpa Price9h 35m4.8 (359)$29 · $0.00
The StepsSylvester Stallone9h 4m4.8 (635)$29 · $0.00
How to Test Negative for StupidJohn Kennedy8h 13m4.7 (9.7K)$28 · $0.00
Bad Fat Black GirlSesali Bowen6h 32m4.7 (2.8K)$24 · $0.00
Send MeMarty Skovlund, Joe Kent8h 10m4.7 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Annotated)John Muir10h 13m4.7 (1.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Invisible StormJason Kander6h 48m4.7 (3.2K)$24 · $0.00
Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m4.7 (5K)$29 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m4.7 (4.8K)$29 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m4.6 (11.9K)$29 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
Will You Love Me?Cathy Glass9h 5m4.6 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
Designing Terry Pratchett’s DiscworldPaul Kidby3h 52m4.7 (343)$20 · $0.00
HostageEli Sharabi5h 25m4.6 (10.8K)$24 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m4.6 (256.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (385)$20 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
Black AF HistoryMichael Harriot15h 43m4.7 (14.6K)$33 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
Pearl of Great PriceJoseph Smith3h 8m4.7 (7.2K)$1.20 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m4.6 (2.6K)$29 · $0.00
Days of Love and Rage: A Story of RevolutionAnand Gopal22h 36m4.7 (584)$34 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h4.6 (5.2K)$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
You may also like
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Annotated)Ruth Benedict11h 36m4.1 (8.8K)$2 · $0.00
Nicomachean Ethics (Annotated)Aristotle11h 24m4.2 (118.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
Tomorrow, the WorldStephen Wertheim9h 10m4.1 (580)$20
Public OpinionWalter Lippmann11h 43m4.0 (3.1K)$2 · $0.00
KissingerWalter Isaacson34h 27m4.2 (8.1K)$30
The Start, 1904–1930William L. Shirer22h 9m4.2 (417)$30
PropagandaEdward Bernays4h 42m3.9 (11.2K)$17
The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne9h 10m3.7 (1M)$1.20 · $0.00
A Chill in the AirIris Origo4h 20m4.2 (1.2K)$20 · $0.00
Public Opinion: Political EssayWalter Lippmann13h 16m4.1 (3.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Kangaroo (Annotated)D. H. Lawrence18h 40m3.5 (3K)$2 · $0.00
England and the WarWalter Alexander Sir Raleigh3h 59m$2 · $0.00
Churchill DefiantBarbara Leaming10h 55m3.9 (784)$29 · $0.00
Mapping the Cold WarTimothy Barney10h 44m3.2 (28)$20
Becoming the Superpowers: John Dewey's Reflections on U.S.A., China & JapanJohn Dewey9h$1.99 · $0.00
Psychological Warfare (Annotated)Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger6h 16m4.5 (12)$2.99 · $0.00
China, Japan and the USA (Annotated)John Dewey8h 57m$1.99 · $0.00
The Icarus SyndromePeter Beinart18h 24m4.0 (459)$40 · $0.00
Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches (November 1914-August 1923) (Annotated)Benito Mussolini13h 33m4.2 (31)$2 · $0.00
THE LAW OF SUCCESS Lesson Fifteen – TOLERANCENapoleon Hill59m$4.70 · $0.00